Men In Black
An unofficial government agency employs the help of some top secret-agents to monitor extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.
22 February 1946, Chicago, Illinois, USA
13 May 1961, Syracuse, New York, USA
26 April 1962, Boise, Idaho, USA
23 August 1964
17 June 1957, Glendale, California, USA
1 January 1969, Sturgis, Michigan, USA
12 December 1940, East Orange, New Jersey, USA
24 September 1966, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
19 May 1964, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
August 12, 2014
[Director Barry Sonnenfeld] establishes the premise in the wildly entertaining first 45 minutes and then glides along for the rest of the film on the strength of a poker-faced comic sensibility.
August 12, 2014
Men in Black, running a breezy 98 minutes, is a showpiece of laconic economy. It's quick, eccentric and deadly funny and for many young movie-goers it's likely to be a close encounter they'll want to see a second and third time.
August 02, 2013
Its attitude is poised somewhere between the deadpan ghoulishness of the Coen brothers and a Letterman-like sense of the absurdity of life in New York's rich ethnic stew.
July 31, 2013
Great special effects, inventive alien designs and Smith and Jones's hip, hilarious double act make director Barry Sonnenfeld's Lethal Weapon-style buddy picture a fast-paced pleasure.
April 14, 2013
There's a playfulness, here, that you don't often find in a special-effect flick.
August 12, 2014
Men In Black deserves credit for supplementing its special effects with a breezy script and genuinely charismatic performances by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
April 14, 2013
A smart, funny and hip adventure film in a summer of car wrecks and explosions.
July 31, 2013
Men in Black is moderately amusing, well-constructed and mercifully short, but it fails to deliver on the zaniness of its first half.
August 12, 2014
What makes this wildly imaginative setup so much fun is the contrast between the deadpan gruffness of Jones and Torn, and the spectacularly strange environment in which they work.
July 31, 2013
The plot, trifling as it is, doesn't much matter. What makes the movie such a hoot are the clever gags, imaginative special effects, and the snappy byplay between the well-matched Jones and Smith.
August 12, 2014
Men in Black is the wryest, sharpest, most entertaining special effects film in recent memory, a simultaneous participant and mocking parody of the more-bang-for-your-buck behemoth genre.
August 12, 2014
A lean, punchy, fast paced, and extremely endearing sci-fi action comedy.
